This has been lots of fun to work on! I was asked by Welsh National Opera MAX (WNO outreach and education) to draw some illustrations for their “Singing Doctors” project. Nine singers, dressed as “doctors” of varying types will be visiting hospitals around Wrexham and singing to patients – to help their recovery! It’s a fantastic project and I’ve loved being involved in illustrating these cards. The postcards will be handed out to patients in the hospital.

OK, here it is, the edited version plus soundtrack and the pics I took of you all against the green screen! Apologies to Arnya though, your photo was wonky and blurred and there was only one! So sorry…

Anyway, I hope you all enjoy the final animation, you were all fab to work with and hope to see you in Appledore again next year!

Hello Appledore animator-peeps!

Here’s the unedited film we made last week in Appledore. I’ll put up the version with your pics etc in the next few days, plus some music, am still editing it in between doing other things..

Hope you all enjoyed the workshops, I had a great time.  – you were all lovely to work with, so Big Ups all round!

I was asked to submit a piece of work to show for Bristol Biennial, with the theme of ‘Storytelling’ . Here it is – a large graphite drawing based on the animation “The Library” that I’m working on. It’s on show in Hamilton House on Stokes Croft in Bristol till the end of the week.

I’ve recently finished painting a giant wooden piece of bunting for Drawn in Bristol’s “Bunt” show, which is being held outdoors around Brizzle’s Harbourside area 9th-17th June. It’s part of the Big Green Week here and should look really pretty when all the pieces (about 100 bunts) are hung together. This is it as a work in progress (one damselfly left to paint).. I chose to paint damselflies because of my dad’s uncontrollable delight every year when the larvae hatched from his back garden pond and it swarmed with these beautiful creatures…

For the past few weeks I’ve been running an animation project for the wonderful Misfits Theatre Company, here in Bristol, along with Max Simpson and Sam Owen of Birmingham-based band Pram. It’s going excellently, and everyone’s very excited about it all – making up their own characters and stories, puppetmaking, as well as getting to play and record sounds on the amazing retro electronic instruments brought in by Sam and Max. Just two weeks left to go, and then it’s time to edit it all and dub on the sound ready for a special premiere at Aardman Studios special screening room on April 27th! We’re all terribly excited about that too, as you can imagine.

As usual, I’ve been too busy to remember to take any photos of the sessions so far, but the Misfits are doing their own blog, so click here if you’d like to have a look at some pics and read what the participants think of it all!!